Beyond Warriors and Wizards: The Clerical Character

[philreed]

Guy McLimore brings us his first in a series of articles looking at other possibilities for characters in The Fantasy Trip.

http://thefantasytrip.game/news/2018...cal-character/

[zot]

I'd love to see more heroes that use magic.

I'm hoping you guys remove the -4 DX for non-wizards to cast spells and the -4 DX from iron as well. Warriors with a few spells can be pretty interesting.

[larsdangly]

I've long used house rules to soften the divide between wizards and heroes; my preference is that everything works the same way for both, other than costs of talents and spells.

[JLV]

Personally, I kind of like the division between Warrior and Wizard -- it changes the play style needed to make each kind of character a success, and it encourages some roleplaying. Of course, that's my personal opinion, and YMMV.

[The Wyzard]

Originally Posted by zot

I'm hoping you guys remove the -4 DX for non-wizards to cast spells

I had never noticed that rule.

I wouldn’t use it either.

[Terquem]

I've always used a house rule that there are no built in penalties for casting spells if you are not a "wizard" or other penalties for using weapons if you are not a "warrior"

To me the penalties are built into the restrictions on acquiring talents and spells

If you want to know a lot of spells, good spells, you simply do not have the resources to know how to use many weapons or armor types

and if you want to be a well rounded warrior, learning spells is going to curb your style

Then, I added campaign specific rules for certain places in my world that had lower requirements for learning spells if you were not an apprentice of a wizard, and places where wizards had to learn to use some weapons as a matter of cultural pride (changing up the IQ cost requirements to suit my campaign)

[Melichor]

Originally Posted by zot

the -4 DX for non-wizards to cast spells

Where is this rule written?
I can neither remember it nor find it.

[Rick_Smith]

Originally Posted by Melichor

Where is this rule written?
I can neither remember it nor find it.

It is on page 10 of AW, about 1/2 way down the page in the first column.

Look for the paragraph starting... "If you are not a wizard..."

Warm regards, Rick.

[Chris Rice]

Originally Posted by Rick_Smith

It is on page 10 of AW, about 1/2 way down the page in the first column.

Look for the paragraph starting... "If you are not a wizard..."

Warm regards, Rick.

Thanks Rick. I just skimmed through AW and missed that. We always thought the 3xIQ to learn a spell was enough for non-Wizards.

[Nils_Lindeberg]

Originally Posted by zot

I'd love to see more heroes that use magic.

I'm hoping you guys remove the -4 DX for non-wizards to cast spells and the -4 DX from iron as well. Warriors with a few spells can be pretty interesting.

Or maybe a talent to get rid of the penalty?